Elizabeth Gaskell passed away on November 12, 1865. She had been touring a retirement home for her husband and family in ​​ Holybourne in Hampshire. She suffered from a sudden heart attack at the age of fifty-five years old. Her last written work, the novel “Wives and Daughters” was never published. However, after her death, it was published posthumously in Cornhill Magazine in 1866.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton edited Jennifer Foster. 1848, Broadview Literary Texts.

“Elizabeth Gaskell Biography.” The Gaskell Society, The Gaskell Society, 5 Mar. 2020, https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/elizabeth-gaskell/.